Meeting With Bolsheviks(1923) – Met Stalin and Trotsky, but failed to meet Lenin because of his death.

Key Teaching – Any revolution could not be separated from the fight against colonialism and a revolution must never begin until all conditions favor its success.

China (1925 – 1927)

Translator – Served as a translator for the Bolsheiviks were backing Chiang Kai-Shek who originally allied himself with the Chinese communist party after he gained control of China when Sun Yat-sen died and left the country to him.

East Asia and Southeast Asia (1927 – 1930) – Traveled throughout East and Southeast Asia preaching Communist ideas and recruited many followers. They all met at a soccer game in Hong Kong (English Land) in an attempt to be secretive and officially formed the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Arrested(1930) – France had been keeping an eye on him after he bashed France in newspapers while living in France and tracked him to Hong Kong where they persuaded the English, who owned Hong Kong at the time, to arrest him.

Hospital(1930) – Upon his arrest he was seen as having TB and sent to a prison hospital in Singapore.

Fake Death(1933) – Friends at the prison hospital allowed him to escape and said he died instead, therefore causing the French to think he was dead and no longer worry about him carrying Communism to their colony of Vietnam.